Well as it seems I’m talking on my own here, and BASS libs are compiled for armv6 even with support for hardfp as raspberry has, this is the way to go.
Too bad. I kind of liked fmod for a second or two.

Unfortunately we do not have an ARM version available for Linux, this is still reserved as an option for source licensees only.
The main reason for this is due to the many variants of ARM, i.e. armv6, armv7, armv8 (64bit), hardfp, softfp, VFP, NEON, we are reluctant to do builds for all options.

At this stage I cannot promise anything, but personally I’d really like to get FMOD running on the platform. We have been hoping to get an ARM version of FMOD supported for Linux for a while now (developers generally need source to do this) so perhaps Raspberry Pi would be a good vehicle for providing a public ARM Linux version.

I’m interested in a library build for linux-ARM (i.e. raspberry pi) too.
A cool starter project with this would be a sound simulator of another engine in your car, maybe even exterior speakers involved… (who wouldn’t like their eco hybrid/etc to sound like a v8 muscle car?)
I’ve seen the android lib which contains arm compiled libs, so it shouldn’t really be too hard to port them to linux arm, would it? 8)
Also, there are tons of projects going on with this cheap and tiny platform. FMOD Ex libs would make a lot of sense today…
Think about it, wouldn’t it be awesome that FMOD Ex will be the engine of choice for projects on these devices?